intel 82576 ipsec offload?

[Julian Elischer]

Jack Vogel wrote:
> I am Jack, the network engineer at Intel responsible for all FreeBSD wired
> lan drivers.
> This is the first I've seen about this. Our understanding was that the
> infrastructure needed
> to do IPSec was not available for either Linux or FreeBSD, can you please
> explain things?
> 
> If everything is there except the support in the driver then I might be able
> to add that to
> my queue.
> 

If we knew what the driver would need then that might help too  :-)

(ha gotcha)  :-)


> Cheers,
> 
> Jack
> 
> 
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Siquijor Philips
> <siquijorphilips at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 1:45 AM, Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 01:24:20PM +0800, Siquijor Philips wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I got a dual-port Intel Gigabit NIC with 82576 (ET) chipset
>>>> http://www.intel.com/Assets/PDF/prodbrief/320116.pdf. It has a feature
>>>> on IPsec offloading but it only mentioned Microsoft Windows 2008 and
>>>> Vista servers. I wonder if FreeBSD have also support on this feature?
>>>>
>>> AFAIK it's not yet, not sure whether Jack has plan to implement the
>>> offloading. I know old Intel i82550 also supported IPSec offloading
>>> but Intel didn't release required information to implement it. 3Com
>>> also supported IPSec offloading in their 3XP hardwares(txp(4)) but
>>> the offloading was not implemented.
>>>
>> Hi Pyun,
>>
>> Thanks for your info! By the way, who is Jack? Is he the author of
>> this driver? I really need to have this feature usable on the driver.
>> I bought these NICs with 82576 chipset for the purpose of implementing
>> IPsec in my network and my current FreeBSD servers could benefit it.
>> Just really thought it has support because FreeBSD was already part of
>> the supported operating system. I was alerted when I've re-read the
>> product info document again that it only support Windows 2008 and
>> Vista platforms. Now, I've confirmed that with the current existing
>> driver. I hope this guy has the plan of implementing it sooner because
>> I really need it.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Siquijor
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